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The Flyers’ 50th Anniversary Jersey landed with a thud. They got buried online (by Kyle, the “online uniform community,” and many, many people on Twitter). Let’s take a look at why the Flyers have a swing and a miss on their hands.

First, it’s lazy. It’s kind of their current white jersey with gold swapped in strategically. The orange yoke stops at the shoulder instead of continuing to the sleeve. Outline the logo and fill the numbers and Captain’s “C” with gold, and that’s about it. I actually don’t hate the use of gold, but it’s being wasted on accents on what amounts to the current uniform.

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It’s not the dribbling Ben Franklin we didn’t even know we wanted, but it looks like the Sixers may be making a slight modification to their logo. As pointed out by a Uni Watch reader on Twitter, the Sixers logo used in a picture tweeted out by the Big 12 looks a little different:

The basketball part of the logo has its lines modified, and it gives the logo a little depth that the flatter one doesn’t seem to have. The Sixers’ practice/summer league jerseys also feature “PHILA” on the chest (and a new number font on some banners). This could all mean nothing at all, or it could signify a more modern take on the classic look the Sixers are currently sporting. Because if no one worth watching is on the court, you might as well dress them up nice. We’d still prefer dribbling Ben though.

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The Rams and Saints will meet on Sunday afternoon in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome with a trip to Super Bowl 53 on the line. If the rematch possesses the intensity of the first meeting between the two teams, a 45-35 Saints win back in November, then we should be in for quite a game. That leads us to perhaps the most important question ahead of what’s expected to be another high-scoring shootout between two of the

You can analyze trends and probabilities all you like. You can diagnose a match to within an inch of its life. But there are certain things you really can’t account for. Before shutting out an impotent Newcastle United on January 2, Manchester United hadn’t kept a clean sheet in the league in their prior seven matches. The Red Devils went to Wembley last weekend to take on Tottenham Hotspur. Goals aplenty, right? Yeah, no: 11

I'm really, really surprised Kyle managed to not open his earlier article with one of his patented, lengthy comparisons between some sports-related event and some (hypothetical) relationship or "girl" story with expectations as high as they were. It would've practically written itself.

Of course, the high expectations were generated completely by Nike (and some widely circulated fan renderings made in the style of Nike's "Pro Combat" NCAA uniforms which were frequently and erroneously reported as "the 2012 Nike uniforms" well after they were confirmed to be fanmade), as there's simply too much money in the NFL to rock the boat. Patting myself on the back, I'll point out that I predicted the uniforms generally wouldn't change.

For what you care about, as far as we know from what we've seen so far, the Eagles uniforms aren't changing at all this season. Being that Nike only showed the green over white combination (more on this below) and it didn't change anything on that combo (in fact, according to Nike Corporate write-up for the Eagles, they "have chosen to stay with their traditional design aesthetic as well as their former uniform fabrication this year," it's safe to assume the Eagles other components (white jerseys, green pants, black alternates, assuming those ever make an appearance again) aren't changing either. That's it. End of story.

The best way to analyze today's event is to figure out what it wasn't.

Yesterday's event was not for football fans. Every fan wanted to know what their team's "new" uniforms looked like. Nike only showed one combination for each team. Of course, the reason for that is twofold.

1) With 32 teams and multiple jersey/pants combos for each team, there are simply too many combos to show in-person (the Rams have seven combos which they regularly trot out, for example), but even the Nike website and store show only the primary/color jersey for each. OK, maybe the merchandise/material isn't available yet (these are two of the largest brands in the world, get your stuff together), but computer renderings could have been made for publishing on the Internet, a la an official style guide. Oddly, there are some substantial uniform updates for 2012 which weren't even mentioned on the 3rd. The Jaguars will be adding a black alternate to their current set for the 2012 season, so there could be other notable updates for which teams want to control the release as opposed to Nike or the NFL.

2) There was nothing "new" about the uniforms from a fan's perspective (other than for Seahawks fans, of course). If recaps of the event included lines like, "And after showing the Rams 5th effectively unchanged combination of 7, this reporter's eyes began glazing over," it'd ruin the coverage. Instead, we get reporting(?) on how these uniforms will "usher in [a] new era of sportswear" (note: they won't).

Yesterday's event was not for the NFL. The event was a Nike commercial where they could push their brand values of performance, etc. in exchange for the $1.1billion they (reportedly) spent for the NFL license. That's all well and good (capitalism!), but that's all it was. Fans don't care that the new fabric is however many percent lighter or better at wicking moisture (unless they're materials science engineers). It's simply means to an end for associating all of Nike's products with "faster, lighter, stronger." Again, that's fine, but the "new" uniforms aren't a big deal to anyone other than Nike (or Seahawks fans). To talk about this "changing everything" or "the game never being the same"…geez, slow down, Nike.

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I usually stick to NFL uniforms and snide remarks in the comments, but the Phillies have a …UniTastic weekend series against the Braves, wearing Negro League throwbacks on Saturday and 1974 throwbacks on Sunday, so here's a quick run-down and review for Saturday's game. Some comments about Sunday's game later.

Unfortunately, I don’t have much background on the Negro Leagues, much less their uniforms, so this is more of a seat-of-the-pants review than anything grounded in facts and history.

That said, on to the uniforms.

The Phillies are wearing the uniforms of the Philadelphia Stars. You may have seen this logo floating around, but it doesn’t actually appear on the uniform. The uniform itself is plain, but has some nice details beyond just the novelty of them being throwbacks. Example, the old timey typeface of the arched wordmark and the numbers just gives the feeling of “old school uniform,” the simple, thin, and effective, red piping around the neck, connecting to the arm is a timeless feature which makes them look like a sports uniform instead of a shirt. The 1980s Mets and Indians (among other teams) experimented with this look, but the thin stroke does much more with less than the gaudy patches on those uniforms. Black (navy?) stroke around the lettering is a nice touch to increase contrast. The hat logo is extremely plain; it’s better than the Black Crackers hat, but it’s too plain to leave an impression.

A neat detail is that someone finally realized that “Philadelphia” has way too many letters to comfortably fit on a shirt and maintain readability, so they said “screw it” and abbreviated it to “Phila.” Genius. Really. For another example of the letter-overload hassle check out this prototype from the 1992 Phillies uniform refresh.